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Roadmap, Market Launch & Release Gates

A 12-week MVP path to a measured pilot, the India go-to-market plan, international scaling principles, and the risk register that gates production release.

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11. Twelve-Week MVP & Pilot Roadmap

Five Phases to a Contract Decision

Wk 1–2

Validate & Design

Interviews, design partner, success baseline, data map, purpose register, threat/AI risk review.

Exit: Signed scope & architecture
Wk 3–5

Platform Foundation

Tenant, identity vault, import, catalogue, privacy evidence, roles and logs.

Exit: Synthetic learner flow works
Wk 6–8

Recommendation Core

Item-item model, embeddings, rules, feedback, explanations, offline evaluation.

Exit: Beats popularity baseline
Wk 9–10

Operational Compliance

Rights, deletion, retention, incident runbook, restoration and contracts.

Exit: Tabletop & deletion tests pass
Wk 11–12

Controlled Pilot

Faculty preview, small cohort, staged expansion, measurement and interviews.

Exit: Outcome report & contract decision
12. Measurement & Evaluation

Pilot Targets

Adoption

≥60%

Invited students who view recommendations

Relevance

≥65%

Positive feedback on shown recommendations

Cold start

≥80%

New opportunities exposed within 7 days

Validity

<1%

Invalid prerequisite/eligibility recommendations

Explanation

≥80%

Students finding reasons understandable

Privacy

Zero

Unauthorised personal data sent to model endpoint

Coverage

Eligible catalogue reached vs. popularity baseline

Rights

100%

Valid rights tests completed within internal SLA

13. India Market Launch

Ideal Customer & Commercial Offer

Begin with private engineering, management or vocational colleges with an active placement team, a digital student system, a defined catalogue and an executive sponsor.

OfferIndicative hypothesisScope
12-week design-partner pilot₹2–5 lakhOne department, measured baseline, integration and outcome report
Annual institution licence₹4–12 lakhVaries by active learners, modules, support and integrations
Per-active-student option₹300–₹900/yearUse only where procurement prefers usage pricing
Enterprise implementation₹3–15 lakhCustom connectors, migration, SSO and deployment support

These prices are hypotheses to validate, not market facts. Avoid a free pilot unless the institution provides executive sponsorship, approved data access, named users, a fixed timeline and a written purchase decision.

1

Diagnose placement outcomes & discovery problems

2

Quantify baseline & define pilot decision metric

3

Demo with synthetic students & public catalogue

4

Complete security/privacy review before student data

5

Sign pilot agreement, DPA and success scorecard

6

Deploy one department, publish evidence, convert to annual

14. International Scaling

One Global Core, Country Policy Packs

Global expansion comes from a common privacy and product core plus country policy packs. Indian age, consent, retention or incident rules are never hard-coded into recommendation logic.

Expansion Rule

Do not claim worldwide, GDPR, FERPA or other jurisdictional compliance based only on the India design. Each country requires a legal and product gap assessment before launch — a global control plane holds tenant configuration and non-personal metadata, while separate regional data planes hold personal data.

15. Risks & Release Gates

What Must Be True Before Production

Student data reused for shared training

HIGH

Control: technical and contractual prohibition by default

Tenant isolation failure

CRITICAL

Control: scoped tokens, service checks, tests, encryption, monitoring

LLM hallucinated academic facts

HIGH

Control: closed sources, structured extraction, deterministic validation

Invalid opportunity or prerequisite

HIGH

Control: hard rules, verified catalogue, human override

15.1 Production Release Gate — All Must Pass

Signed customer agreement, DPA, instructions, subprocessor list
Data flow, purpose register, field allow-list, retention approved
Tenant isolation, access control, backups, penetration testing passed
Rights export, correction, consent withdrawal, deletion tested
Incident tabletop completed with notification responsibilities
Model card, evaluation, catalogue provenance, rollback plan approved
For minors: age, guardian/consent, child-impact review approved
Faculty preview and invalid-recommendation threshold passed
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